A family group record allows you to list everyone in an entire family. It will take several charts in order to complete a family group record.
The family group record is several pages of one chart. The chart begins with a husband and allows you to mark if the husband remarried and has additional pages for additional marriages. Then, the chart will ask for the wife and then for each of the couple’s children.
For each person listed on the family group record, the chart asks for their full name as well as important dates and places. The more information you have on each person, the more complete each chart becomes.
It is recommended that you would keep all of the pages together in a file folder or binder. The pages add up quickly once you start working on this project. While you may enter the information on the computer or scan the completed documents, a hard copy does make adding information easier.
By completing the family group record charts, you are actually obtaining more information than on a standard family tree chart. You are including the husband, wife and all children of each couple.
The problem with creating a family group record for every member of your family is that this is a very time consuming project. This is a project which you may find yourself working on for years. It is simply hard to find all of the information for each extended family member in a short period of time.
This is a great project for those who choose to pursue it. It will be very beneficial not only to you, but to your children and grandchildren as the information is passed down to future generations.
You can obtain a blank family group record from the Family Search website.
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